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Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
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Jacek Glen wrote: So, is it just me or do you find job agents to be quite unprofessional too?
It's being professionally lazy; they optimize their chances by employing prejudice and bias, and only take time to look at what appears to be a deadbeat-match. Anything that requires work is dismissed immediately.
Since the pool of people they pick from is large enough, no problems. If problems do arise, then a customer may be lost - but who cares about a single customer? 
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: It's being professionally lazy; they optimize their chances by employing prejudice and bias, and only take time to look at what appears to be a deadbeat-match. Anything that requires work is dismissed immediately.
The report of my death was an exaggeration - Mark Twain
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They are all the same (in my experience): stupid, useless, dishonest ...
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Oh yes, you tell them!!
But wait, when you say "stupid, useless and dishonest", you don't mean software developers, do you?
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Agents! of what I have no idea.
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Well it's not Fortune[^], it could be Chaos[^]?
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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I hope you're taking the phone interview with #3 to explain to them that you aren't interested in the position, that you tried to explain that to the agent a half dozen times before he/she setup the interview, but it just didn't seem to be sinking in.
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I found your stories really funny (and you are a talented writer, in my opinion).
I've had few experiences with job agents, but suspect your conclusions are right.
Veni, vidi, vici.
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Yeah, these are normal stories in my experience. I find head hunters like this to be on the same level as "Used Car Salesman".
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Dave Kreskowiak wrote: I find head hunters like this to be on the same level as "Used Car Salesman".
Head Hunters aspire to be as honest as Used Car Salesmen. 
The report of my death was an exaggeration - Mark Twain
Simply Elegant Designs JimmyRopes Designs
I'm on-line therefore I am.
JimmyRopes
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So:
</div> is an invalid self-closing tag and is viewed as a new tag
while:
<img></img> is seen as a stray ending tag,
And all the while, it sort of looks like XML.
1. I can see now why there was a push for XHTML
2. Learning the details of this makes me loathe HTML even more
3. The W3C people are....wait for it...IDIOTS
4. This is why I'm writing a DSL to generate HTML. I never want to write a line of HTML again. Or Javascript. Or CSS.
There. I'm done.
For the moment.
Marc
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Well - at least for the example you've submitted I don't see your squawk:
<div/> is most likely an error, and at best, pointless (<br> works better and is clearer and has no closing '/'). How would XHTML handle this better? One's opinion enters in upon what better means.
<img ...> has no end tag - but this makes sense: one is not supposed to have any content potential between tags of the image type (were they allowed). One sure way of preventing this is to flag the closing tag as invalid.
Now - eliminating the internal closing tag for (i.e., no <img ... /> - I can see a good argument for that as the closing tag is a good flag that this is, indeed, the end, of a self closing element.
Remember . . . above all . . . it's for the internet. Is it really worth being any more rigorous when you consider what will be done with it?
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W∴ Balboos wrote: Remember . . . above all . . . it's for the internet. Is it really worth being any more rigorous when you consider what will be done with it?
Do you really want your pr0n to break in mid-image?
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In addition
The tag <script src="myscript.js" /> also looks pretty valid to me. But it isn't.
You have to write the tag with a seperate closing tag <script src="myscript.js"></script> even if the content is empty...
Consistency is obviously an unknown word in HTML... 
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Well, HTML5 != XHTML. 
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Is XHTML still a thing?
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Lloyd Atkinson wrote: Is XHTML still a thing?
HTML5/CSS3 is the latest and greatest for now.
XHTML is so yesterday.
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I'm on-line therefore I am.
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Lloyd Atkinson wrote: Is XHTML still a thing?
There's an interesting read on wikipedia[^].
The standard known as XHTML5 is currently developed as XML serialization of HTML5 spec
Doesn't look like there's much interest in adopting it though.
Marc
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Now, you have to persuade the DSL to write the HTML for you. 
Veni, vidi, vici.
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CPallini wrote: Now, you have to persuade the DSL to write the HTML for you.
I'm well on my way.
Marc
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The ones you mention are just the tip of the iceberg. Unfortunately HTML5 is great for this - since it unifies the browser's error handling. Before HTML5, errors have been handled by all browsers differently.
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Florian Rappl wrote: The ones you mention are just the tip of the iceberg.
So I'm noticing. Well, I'll fix them in the HTML generator as I encounter them.
Marc
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It will be hard to fix them all, as most HTML rules depend on the context. If you think parsing HTML is easy - it is not. There are crazy rules - especially for tables. And don't get even started on foreign elements...
Additionally you just mentioned <img>, but the specification also explicitly provides information on <image> - which is crazy. There is a huge number of other edge cases, but I think the foster parenting + formatting reconstruction are among the hardest.
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Generating HTML is still a lot easier than parsing it.
In theory, a proper HTML5 and/or javascript generator could help us break free of the current web standards, without sacrificing browser or platform compatibility. I've thought about building something like that a few times, and I've got a few ideas how to go about it, but nothing concrete yet. If I find the time I'll make a public workspace for it, and throw my hat in the ring.
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